The Realizations of Social Biographic Event in Ahmed Khalaf's "Bawabat Baghdad" (The Gate of Baghdad)

Abstract

The novel "Bawqbat Baghdad" (The Gate of Baghdad) by the Iraqi novelist Ahmed Khalaf was published by The House of General Cultural Affairs in Baghdad in 2001 and regarded as a mere novel but ,actually, it carried a part of the novelist biography. His biography is implemented in the plot which is based on imagination that extends to reality.The novel includes the novelist biography during the Second Gulf War in 1991. The aim of the study is to discover the novelist biography that he kept in his diaries about this war, then, converted to a novel that he called "Bawqbat Baghdad" (The Gate of Baghdad).